Issue 414 of New Internationalist

August 2008

Included in this issue

Brazil’s AIDS fight against Big Pharma continues

by *Mitchell* & *Richardson*

Tanzanian authorities launch a crackdown on anti-albino witch doctors

Dominica is a small island both in population and size. Yet the island feels a lot bigger than this, with dozens of mountain...

Lies, food & the poor by *Eduardo Galeano*

This collection of prowling, _lunfardo_ slang-inflected songs concentrates on an imagined lowlife of Buenos Aires.

The début album from the Israeli-born, London-based performance artist *Anat Ben-David*, is based on a grim paradox, leisure...

*Karen King-Aribisala*'s debut novel, a dark and brooding meditation on the stories we tell and the effect they have on everyday...

*Donna Dickensen*’s fascinating overview of the complex world of medical ethics

A masterful piece of film-making that leaves the audience gasping at the injustice of a 99 year sentence for a Mexican 'illegal'...

Toilets have been around since the days of Elizabeth I. Systems old and new.

Children imprisoned with their mothers worldwide